Exploitation of Brazilians

Want to know how people are currently helping suffereing Brazilians or even how you can help or make an impact on the changes that are occurring in Brazil that are harming the environment?  This page will be continuously updated and tell you how you can get involved, including organizations you can become a part of and people to contact about the issues.  If you want to do something to change Brazil, keep looking here.

visit The Nature Conservatory website and donate a dollar to get a tree planted in The Atlantic Forest in Brazil in hopes of restoring 2.5 million acres of land and planting 1 billion trees in the next 7 years.

Sign up for Action Alerts with many of the organizations on the Links & References page

Join the Greenpeace Organization and their fight to keep the Amazon strong and thriving.  The following video shows some activist from Greenpeace at Cargill Factory who destroys the Amazon by harvest soya beans. (The topic of soya beans is discussed in a blog on the home page.)

Some Everyday Actions
URGE: Urge the U.S. government to end subsidies for fossil fuel projects in the ecologically sensitive rainforests. Learn more about the struggles of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.

BOYCOTT: Remember that one of the ways you help the Amazon is by NOT supporting the companies that are destroying the rainforest and its indigenous people

FOSSIL FUELS: Reduce your energy consumption and other natural resources that are derived from rainforests. Promote and demand renewable energy alternatives.

WOOD CONSUMPTION: Use less paper and wood products, use paper made from alternative fibers such as agricultural wastes, kenaf, hemp or 100 percent recycled paper. Don’t buy wood products that are derived from primary or old-growth forests.

**suggestions from Amazon Watch**

Below is a short 8 minute video about how the Center for Human Rights is currently helping Brazilians combat slavery in farming and impoverished areas.